William Pickering - Publisher

London: William Pickering, 1852. First Edition. Printed by John Childs and Sons, Bungay. William Pickering - Publisher. First edition of the author’s second book. On the front free endpaper, in an unknown hand, is written: “The Editor of The John Bull.”.Read More about Polonius

The Hog Butcher's Rubaiyat

Chicago: Henry Olendorf Shepard, 1901. Shepard, H.O.Third edition (so-stated). The Hog Butcher's Rubaiyat. An unconventional version, using Fitzgerald's meter and rhyme scheme, by the Chicago writer Zimmerman ("Zero")who explains in a note that 33 of the 131 quatrains are "more or less literally paraphrased from McCarthy's elegant prose translation"Read More about The Rubaiyât of Mirza-Mem'n. [By John S. Zimmerman